Gabriel David Josipovici Member of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature -known as FRSL- is a British writer, critic, literary theorist and screenwriter born in 1940. He was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to Jewish parents. During the Vichy regime, Gabriel Josipovici and his mother, Sacha Rabinovitz, escaped anti-Semitic persecution by fleeing to a village in the French Alps. He studied for six years in Egypt at Victoria College, Cairo from 1950 to 1956, before emigrating with his mother to England and finishing his A-levels at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire. He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a first degree in 1961. Gabriel Josipovici taught at the University of Sussex in Brighton from 1963 to 1998, where he is a Research Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities. He was previously Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford University. Josipovici has published more than a dozen novels, three volumes of short stories, and several critical books. Carcanet Press has published his work since his novel Contre Jour in 1986. His works have been taken to the stage in Britain and to radio in France and Germany, and his work has been translated into all major European languages. and arabs. In 2001 he published A Life, a biographical memoir of his mother, the translator and poet Sacha Rabinovitch. In 2007, Gabriel Josipovici gave a lecture at the University of London entitled, What has happened to modernity? and was subsequently published by Yale University Press. He is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.